2008 Teacher Creativity Mini-Grant Recipients
The Board of Trustees of The Portland Foundation has approved Teacher Creativity Mini-Grants totaling $4,250 for 17 projects for the first half of 2008.
Teacher Creativity Mini-Grants are to help cover the costs ($250 or less) of learning experiences which teachers feel are important to their students, yet are outside the budget of their school. This program is funded by the Virgil and Josephine Thomas Educational Fund, a component fund of The Portland Foundation, as a way to increase funding for educational projects and programs.
This program funds grants for field trips, classroom supplies, class projects, programs, music or art instruction, speakers, educational materials and seminars. The purpose is to allow teachers to become more creative in their teaching styles and methods, without being hindered by cost.
The grants awarded are as follows:
Bloomfield Elementary School
Ms. Sandy Colquhoun - $250.00 to create a special reading nook for preschoolers at Bloomfield Elementary School.
East Elementary School
Ms. Kathy Ayers - $250.00 to purchase materials for a woven cloth basket project that uses a fabric wrapping technique.
East Elementary School
Ms. Sandy Colquhoun - $250.00 to create a special reading nook for preschoolers at East Elementary School.
East Jay Middle School
Ms. Jan Donathon - $250.00 to help students with learning disabilities understand themselves better by using the book Thank You Mr. Falkner and guest speakers.
East Jay Middle School
Mr. Peter Vogler - $250.00 to help defray the cost of a marimba for the East Jay Band.
Jay County Christian Academy
Ms. Kelly Bricker - $250.00 to help pay for the 5th and 6th grade field trip to Chicago.
Jay County Christian Academy
Ms. Kay Corle - $250.00 to purchase items to build a Children's Garden.
Jay County Christian Academy
Ms. Janay Mace - $250.00 to help pay for the 5th and 6th grade field trip to Chicago.
Jay County Christian Academy
Mr. Jerry Nichols - $250.00 to purchase tuning forks, a Van De Graf Generator, prisms, lenses and a magnet.
Jay County Christian Academy
Ms. Kristine Wolford - $250.00 to purchase supplies and materials for a Mini-Exchange City.
Jay County High School
Mr. Devon Lykins - $250.00 to help acquire currencies from foreign countries for use in the Social Studies classrooms.
Jay County High School
Ms. Annemarie McClung - $250.00 to help pay for a German folk dancing workshop.
Jay County High School
Ms. Margaret Ralph - $250.00 to help pay for a field trip to the Indiana Repertory Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol.
Jay County High School
Mr. Kelly Smeltzer - $250.00 to purchase various sound effects apparatus for the 2008 marching season.
Jay County High School
Mr. Peter Vogler - $250.00 to help hire dance instructor Jessica Daniels as an artist-in-residence for the dance/choreography class at JCHS.
Pennville Elementary School
Ms. Virginia Fennig - $250.00 to help pay for a field trip to The Indiana Museum of Arts and the Athenaeum’s Rathskellar Restaurant in Indianapolis.
Redkey Elementary School
Ms. LaVetha Loucks - $250.00 to help purchase percussion instruments for use in the elementary General Music Classroom.
The next Teacher Creativity Mini-grant Application deadline for the Winter Cycle is January 30, 2009.